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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
300
Utgivningsdatum
1990-11-01
Upplaga
New e.
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Medarbetare
David, Wyatt
Illustrationer
17halftones
Volymtitel
Series Number 11 The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California
Dimensioner
227 x 153 x 16 mm
Vikt
404 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780521397513

The Fall into Eden

Landscape and Imagination in California

av David Wyatt
Häftad,  Engelska, 1990-11-01
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In this book David Wyatt examines the mythology of California as it is reflected in the literature of the region. He argues that in the literature of the West, the energies, which, in other regions, had been concentrated in covenant theology or the rationalisation of Southern history, are displaced into an encounter with landscape. Tracing the early literature of California to Dana, Leonard, and Fremont, Wyatt studies their development of self-consciousness and awareness of the physical beauty in nature. He then examines in separate chapters the writings of Muir, King, and Mary Austin during a time of domestication and exploitation of the land when landscape became, of necessity, an idea or lost ideal. Of twentieth-century writers, the book focuses on Norris, Steinbeck, and Chandler, who seemed to struggle against the land, charting the advance of human hopes against the vast open spaces of the West. Professor Wyatt concludes with the writer's return to landscape as source and end in the poetry of Jeffers and Snyder.
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'This is an elegant, graceful, and moving book, a kind of hymn to California ...'. American Literature

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Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue: the mythology of the region; 1. Spectatorship and abandonment: Dana, Leonard, and Frmont; 2. Muir and the possession of landscape; 3. King and catastrophe; 4. Mary Austin: nature and nurturance; 5. Norris and the vertical; 6. Steinbeck's lost gardens; 7. Chandler, marriage, and 'the Great Wrong Place'; 8. Jeffers, Snyder, and the ended world; Epilogue: fictions of space; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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